Official Video for Modern Moxie's Til I'm A Ghost
When I wrote a track review for Modern Moxie's Til I'm A Ghost last year I offered:
When you hear Til I'm A Ghost by Modern Moxie you want to read in between the lines and, while all song interpretations might just tell you more about yourself than the intent of the song, you just feel like their are big stories inside Madison Lucas' brain that you want to pick through. The song shifts in sometimes askew ways but always feeling kind of 1978 proto pop blended with contemporary indie rock / power pop tones. The musical sounds and arcs are vast here with many surprises. The rock chops are potent and so sonically satisfying. Love the guitar lines that work around the vocal melodies. Fuck yes. Cool beans.
I think I hit it right, after listening to the song numerous times after that I still get a late 70's proto pop punk vibe which is so cool as that fertile creative time for indie music is something I go back to often. Well, the Charlotte, North Carolina indie rockers have produced and released an Official Video for Til I'm A Ghost. It is, in fact, their debut video and as produced, written and directed by Dries Vandenberg, involves enthusiastic street hockey with interruptions by cars (I thought of Wayne's World), live performance footage shot at The World Famous Milestone Club in West Charlotte, and the trouble that ensues after too much partying and an errant banana peel. Again.Cool Beans.
Modern Moxie is Madison Lucas, Harry Kollm, Phil Pucci, and Charlie Weeks.
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Robb Donker
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
Modern Moxie is an indie pop/rock band based in Charlotte, NC. Hailing from a small South Carolina town, multi-instrumentalist Madison Lucas took up songwriting in college, mostly confined to her dorm room closet. By 2011, she found herself with enough songs to make an album, and wanting to move forward with her musical endeavors, teamed up with producer Kenny McWilliams (Archer Avenue Studio) and Dave Harris (Studio B Mastering) to release her first effort entitled the bedroom ep.
With a well-produced physical copy of her greatest embarrassments and triumphs proudly in tow, Lucas and her acoustic guitar began driving hours out of town to perform at open mics, slowly learning to shake off the terror of being so uniquely vulnerable in front of complete strangers. She found a world of support and an unexpected opportunity to create among like-minded musicians which prompted a move to Charlotte, NC. By 2013, Lucas had found a partner in crime, bassist Harry Kollm (Time Sawyer, Asleep in the Weeds, Jon Linker Band), who’s varied veteran experience propelled Lucas to get serious about forming a full band, thus bringing Modern Moxie into existence.
Lucas and Kollm spent the next four years going through a series of line-up changes, working together to capture Lucas’ essential drive to get the melodies she heard inside herself out into the open. The duo spent this time kinetically writing, correcting, and transforming dozens of original songs, performing now and again, but mostly keeping Modern Moxie as a side project. After marrying in late 2017, Lucas and Kollm spent their first year as husband and wife recording sporadically with the bedroom ep producer, Kenny McWilliams, to create an LP together, a labor of love called Claw Your Way Out.
Late-night at a 4th of July party among fellow musician friends, Lucas eagerly shared a newly recorded song, “Light + Sound”. Guitarist Phil Pucci (Pullover, Serfs, Landless, Ernie) was instantly smitten by Modern Moxie’s knack for song structure which had their signature effervescent pop melodies floating over the distorted fuzz of angst-ridden guitar. Pucci (who coincidentally officiated the couple’s marriage) joined Modern Moxie shortly after hearing the track and brought along original Serfs drummer Charlie Weeks to complete the current and solidified line up. Years in the making, Claw Your Way Out is a celebration record, triumphantly bursting with hilarious and moving self-reflection.
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